Pythium splendens

Pythium splendens is a plant pathogen. It is a potentially useful organism for the synthesis of large amounts of eicosapentaenoic acid, which is a polyunsaturated fatty acid with a variety of functions that are beneficial to biological systems.^[1]

Pythium splendens
Pythium splendens causing root rot on kava (Piper methysticum)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Clade:	Diaphoretickes
Clade:	Sar
Clade:	Stramenopiles
Phylum:	Gyrista
Class:	Oomycetes
Order:	Peronosporales
Family:	Pythiaceae
Genus:	Pythium
Species:	P. splendens
Binomial name
Pythium splendens Hans Braun, (1925)